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ANTHONY G. SANTOORJIAN
17380 Honeysuckle Ct. – Lakeville, MN 55044
Phone: (952) 215-4785; E-Mail: anthony.santoorjian@bestbuy.com
Education
University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota
Curtis L. Carlson School of Management May 2013
Bachelor of Science in Business
Major: Finance
Minors: Accounting, Mathematics
Experience
Best Buy Richfield, Minnesota
Financial Analyst – Retail Finance November 2015 – Current
Primary Job Duties
- Forecast Sales, COGS, and Vendor Support on a daily level (by location and
category) through developing a specific set of assumptions and consolidating
several inputs into daily targets
- Create the Dotcom and Mobile SAS Budgets (Sales, COGS, Vendor Support)
by analyzing historical trends, running an ARIMA time-series forecast and
Iterative Proportional Fitting Procedure with SPSS Modeler, and receiving
feedback or adjustments from field leaders
- Collaborate with Category teams in order to receive any special promotion/new
release information to include in the assumptions for the forecast
- Lead monthly meetings with management from Retail Finance and Category
Finance outlining the methodologies and assumptions used to forecast the daily
sales targets for the upcoming month
- Identify key comp drivers for the upcoming month and create a promotional
summary highlighting these drivers that is distributed to numerous business
leaders/partners across the company
Projects/Innovations
- Created unique localized daily targets for all big box locations (over 1,000
stores) using SPSS Modeler, vastly improving the accuracy of the location
level targets, particularly for stores with distinct uniqueness on specific days
(e.g. closed on Sundays or Sales Tax Holiday event)
- Revamped the daily weights methodology and model to automatically account
for category growth year-over-year and how that affects the total store daily
sales forecast, improving the efficiency, accuracy, and flexibility of the model
- Improved PAC daily and monthly target accuracy by implementing our team’s
forecast methodology (previously managed by the PAC team)
- Created a new category, VP – Precinct Services, in order to give service classes
unique daily shape and thus more closely align their daily targets to their
historical business demand
Parametric Technology Company (PTC) Blaine, Minnesota
PLM Technical Consultant February 2014 – June 2015
Caterpillar Project
- Facilitated meetings with the PTC and Caterpillar team to gather requirements
and discuss the status of key software functionality changes
- Collaborated with developers to identify, resolve, and test software defects
- Closed out 10+ defects a week, each with a description of the defect and the
steps taken to resolve/test them
- Proactively created documentation used by my coworkers and CAT team

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outlining my testing methodology
Whirlpool Project
- Tested the software performance at Whirlpool’s multiple facilities using my
software expertise to guide my testing
- Independently analyzed test results using Excel spreadsheets
- Led discussions with Whirlpool management about the test results, giving
insight into possible causes for discrepancies and steps to resolve them
Travelers Insurance St. Paul, Minnesota
Financial Management Leadership and Development Intern (FMLDP) – Corporate Audit Summer 2012
- Tested and affirmed financial statements were properly recorded and reviewed
- Audited the entire Earnings Release in order to ensure that the information
being released to influential investors and the general public were accurate and
properly documented with acceptable support (by recalculating financials and
tying numbers to support)
- Met with business leaders across Travelers in order to resolve any outstanding
issues with work papers, explain the methodology of our testing and to gain
insight on various systems
- Presented a case study on catastrophe management to CFO Jay Benet,
augmenting my professional speaking skills and ability to decipher, interpret,
and communicate information quickly
Dr. Lian Cheng Roseville, Minnesota
Associate Accountant January 2010 – January 2012
- Completed all the posting, filing, and billing, giving me a stronger
understanding of common accounting practices
- Organized records of all new and existing patients and their insurance providers
using Excel, allowing me to become proficient with the program
- Corrected mistakes in the posting of services not yet rendered (date of service
errors)
Technical Proficiencies
Best Buy Systems (Advanced) – Extensively used the following Best Buy Systems to load/pull relevant data and to run
necessary processes: TM1 Perspectives, Business Objects (BOBJ), Essbase, and Retail Matrix
Excel (Advanced) - Worked expansively with Excel in my current role at Best Buy, while getting my
Finance/Accounting degree, at Travelers insurance as an auditor, and as an associate accountant with Dr. Lian Chen
SPSS Modeler (Advanced) - Gained proficiency through building and manipulating several models used for
forecasting
Java (Intermediate) - Analyzed and tested Java source code for PTC’s Windchill software in order to satisfy the clients’
needs and requirements
SQL (Intermediate) - Independently enrolled in SQL courses and completed training material to advance my skillset
MATLAB (Novice) - Used MATLAB to replicate the random walk (Brownian motion) of trade derivatives for my Financial
Derivatives course
CREO 3D CAD Software (Novice) - Took a course at PTC on CREO to better understand how clients use our
software to develop product designs and specifications